In October and November, students from Brazil and Ukraine tackled science and diplomacy challenges related to resource use, climate change, and natural disasters, playing the Toltecan map.

At the end of the game, students also dissected the game to understand how this active learning experience is constructed so that they can implement lessons learned into their future classrooms as part of a new professional development track we are developing for the program.

Students from the Summer 2020 Cohort have completed their Greenworks project, an elementary school garbage can program!  Erlena, Kurniawan, and Azzahra built six upcycled trashcans, color-coded for organic and plastic waste, which were donated to Runny’s School and SMK Pembangunan on their home island of Ternate in eastern Indonesia.  They have been working with the elementary school students to teach them about waste management.

In March and April, teams from Indonesia and Brazil joined political science students at Arizona State University to study climate change, plastic pollution, and deforestation on the Zemia and Toltecan maps.

We piloted a successful convergence between multiple classrooms around the world, with students working asynchronously in the diplomacy game and gamemasters coordinating across four different timezones.